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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

another bookstore review

Lisa Romeo, a participant in the Stonecoast writing program, has just given us a nice mention on her blog http://lisaromeo.blogspot.com"Last month I discovered Gulf of Maine, which gets my award for cramming in the largest number of really good books and aggressively supporting the local writing community and publishing economy"

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Our new poet laureate

Charles Simic has become the new poet laureate for the United States.Here is a poem of his from a recent issue of the New Yorker:

Driving Home

Minister of our coming doom, preachingon the car radio, how rightyour hell and damnation sound to meas I travel these small, bleak roadsthinking of the mailman's sonthe Army sent back in a sealed coffin.

His house is around the next turn.A forlorn mutt sits in the yardwaiting for someone to come home.I can see the tv is on in the living room,canned laughter in the empty houselike the sound of beer cans tied to a hearse.

About Me

Gulf of Maine Books is an independent alternative bookstore in Brunswick, Maine, founded in 1979 by Beth Leonard and Gary Lawless and still going strong!We are open Monday through Saturday, 930-530, and our phone is 207-729-5083. Our email address is: gulfofmainebooks@gmail.com